INTRODUCTION. 
XXV 
No. of Farms. 
Brought forward .... 2007 
Glebe of Clergy . 140 
Glebe of superannuated Clergy .. 45 
For maintaining the Poor ....... 16 
For maintaining the Hospitals .. 4 
To Farmers . 1847 
Total number of Farms .. 4059 
The exact expenditure of the island is more 
easily ascertained; but, previously to mentioning 
the particulars of it, it will be necessary to give 
some little account of the persons holding offices, 
who have not yet been noticed, but whose ex- 
pences are defrayed by government, or, what is 
the same thing, paid from funds established for 
the purpose, which are under the superintendance 
of government. The salaries of the different 
masters of the small school at Bessestedr, the 
only one in the island maintained at the public 
expence, together with the allowance for the 
support of the boys, amount to three thousand 
two hundred and fifty-three rix-dollars. 
There are no hospitals throughout Iceland of 
any sort; that which formerly existed at Guver- 
naes having been dissolved, from being considered 
too burthensome an institution, and the poor 
wretches sent to their respective homes, where 
